Medical SLP - Exam 2 Flashcards
Endoscopic Results (5)
- normal speech
- consistent VPD
- task-specific VPD
- Irregular VPD
- Abnormal resonance without VPD
What are endoscopic evaluations looking for?
Whether surgery is an option or not, what kind of surgery, and prognosis for success.
Management options for VPI/VPD
- Pharyngoplasty (augmentation, sphincter and flap)
- Speech appliance (retainers, obturators and lifts)
- Behavioral Management (surgery)
Pharyngeal Flaps
Inferior and Superior: can cause sleep apnea. not a great method.
Midline and Lateral (circular - cuts palatopharyngeus)
Sphincter Pharyngoplasty
cuts palatopharyngeus
- doesn’t always get complete closure.
- may not be effective as a flap
Pharyngoplasty
surgery on the velopharynx
might complicate a class III malocclusion
Pharyngoplasty Augmentation
think boobjob
-take some material (saline/silicon wrapped in dacron ike a pillow), suture it to the posterior pharyngeal wall which makes the posterior wall closer to the velum. good for platybasia.
Speech appliances are made by a..
Prosthodontist
Speech appliances
Advantages: no risk, can be easily changed and used their whole life.
Earlier management is possible, revisions can be done when necessary, may stimulate growth
Types of Appliances
Palate Obturator - anchor with teeth.
Palatal Lift - regular retainer with tail to lift velum closer to pharyngeal wall.
Obturator with a Speech Bulb - tail with bulb plugs hole
Circumstances for Favoring a Speech Appliance
- younger children (3-5 years)
- unknown etiology
- severe paralysis
- severe articulation disorder/delay
- mild resonance imbalance
VPI/D hearing issues and effect on language
- language delay
- conductive hearing loss
- middle ear disease (MED)
- hearing acuity
Obligatory Errors
physically unable to make the sound; consistent with errors; surgical fix only.
- correct place but not voice or manner
- nasal air emission (NAE)
- hypernasality (voice error)
- air escaping in odd places because of dentition
Compensatory Errors
most common; trying to make themselves intelligible; mostly substitutions; mostly place rather than manner changes.
- incorrect place, voice or manner
- nasal & pharyngeal fricative
- glottal stopping
Nasometer
objective computer assistive instrument that measures how much air is coming out of the nose and mouth
Surgical Lip Repair: first thing needed
connect the orbicularis oris
Rule of 10’s for Lip Repair
baby needs to be 10lbs, have a minimum of 10 grams of hemoglobin (O2) in the blood for anesthesia, and 10 weeks of age.
otherwise surgery have the potential to suffocate the child.
Straight Line Lip Repair
cut and sew the edges together. tight repair and tension of the epidermis can stop jaw from growing forward. can cause notching of upper lip.
Triangular Flap Repair (Tennison-Randall)
triangle shaped tissue block is removed from the lip. lengthens lip; nice vermillion repair. bilateral and unilateral.
if you cut tissue off the lip your repair potentially needs to be too tight to get it to close.